Thursday, August 12, 2021

(2426) Now the Asahi brewery...

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 ...is in Tokyo and not in Osaka (as a matter of fact it's in the Sumida Ward, right across the Sumida River from Asakusa) but judging from this old advertising poster, back then they were more imaginative. Apparently, it was their beer that had hidden itself in the cave leaving the world in the dark and not the goddess of sun, Amaterasu Omikami like Japanese mythology says.

(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr).

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